Jeanne Duval

Standard Name: Duval, Jeanne

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Family and Intimate relationships Charles Baudelaire
In 1842 he began a relationship with the mixed-race actress Jeanne Duval (who a century and a half later was transformed into the narrator of Angela Carter 's title story in her Black Venus...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Angela Carter
Black Venus re-interprets actual women of history whose public image has been demonized, like Lizzie Borden the alleged of murderess and Jeanne Duval (a mixed-race woman who suffered from syphilis, mistress and muse of Charles Baudelaire
Textual Production Maud Sulter
The Scottish National Portrait Gallery featured MS 's exhibition entitled Jeanne Duval : a Melodrama, and published at Edinburgh her related text bearing the same title.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Donald, Ann. “Tracing the thin black line”. Scotsman.com: Scotland on Sunday.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Maud Sulter
Pursuing her established interest in the Black presence in Europe, MS here relates the story of Duval , mistress of the French poet Charles Baudelaire , the Black Venus of his poetry, who was fictionalised...

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